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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2023
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Shibata, Yokohama, JP;
Tomoyuki Sashima, Tokyo, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A zoom optical system comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a front-side lens group; an intermediate lens group having positive refractive power; and a rear-side lens group. The front-side lens group is composed of one or more lens groups and has a negative lens group. At least part of the intermediate lens group is a focusing lens group. The rear-side lens group is composed of one or more lens groups. Upon zooming, the first lens group is moved with respect to an image surface and distances between the first lens group and the front-side lens group, between the front-side lens group and the intermediate lens group, and between the intermediate lens group and the rear-side lens group change. The following conditional expressions are satisfied:−0.750<<4.0002.250<1<5.00032.000≤where fF denotes a focal length of the focusing lens group, fRF denotes a focal length of a lens group closest to the object side in the rear-side lens group, TLW denotes an entire length of the optical system in a wide angle end state, ZD1 denotes a movement amount of the first lens group upon zooming from the wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, and Wω denotes a half angle of view in the wide angle end state.